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QUEST FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: AN INSCRIBED RELIC FROM ANCIENT RAPA NUI (EASTER ISLAND) – Part I

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Melka T. S., Schoch R. M.
Asian and African Studies
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2021
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vol. 30
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issue 1
137 - 172
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This article focuses on an antique wooden fragment from Easter Island engraved with a single rongorongo (RR) glyph. Based on our analysis, we conclude that the most likely hypothesis regarding this fragment is that it dates to pre-missionary times (prior to 1864). It was a part of some type of weapon or fighting instrument, either of a functional or ritual nature. It may represent a portion of a handle for an obsidian-tipped spear or knife. The “bird”-like RR glyph on the fragment belongs in all probability to a category that has previously been connected in the scholarly literature on RR with “slumber”, and hence “waning”, “demise”, and “death”. Its presence on a hand-weapon or ceremonial warlike artefact suggests a meaningful real-world, “non-literary”, context for this glyph.
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